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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lachlan umbers”
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  • Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy

    Edited by Sarah Murray, Lachlan Umbers ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Studies in Australian Politics, Economics and Society
    The Australian democratic system has long been regarded as one of the most stable and predictable in the world, with an entrenched two-party duopoly, compulsory voting ensuring high levels of electoral participation and relatively high levels of satisfaction with the democratic process. Yet the ways Australians engage with, and participate in, their democracy have shifted substantially in recent ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Climate Justice Beyond the State

    by Lachlan Umbers, Jeremy Moss ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Ethics
    Virtually every figure in the climate justice literature agrees that states are presently failing to discharge their duties to take action on climate change. Few, however, have attempted to think through what follows from that fact from a moral point of view. In Climate Justice Beyond the State, Lachlan Umbers and Jeremy Moss argue that states’ failures to take action on climate change have ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Climate Justice and Non-State Actors

    Corporations, Regions, Cities, and Individuals

    Edited by Jeremy Moss, Lachlan Umbers ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Ethics
    This book investigates the relationship between non-state actors and climate justice from a philosophical perspective.The climate justice literature remains largely focused upon the rights and duties of states. Yet, for decades, states have failed to take adequate steps to address climate change. This has led some to suggest that, if severe climate change and its attendant harms are to be avoided, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century

    Old Institutions, New Challenges

    by Stewart Jackson, Joff Lelliott, Shannon Brincat, Josephine Bourne, Nick Economou ...
    The global political environment in the twenty-first century is proving dynamic and challenging for Australian policymakers and political institutions. Australian Politics in the Twenty-first Century contextualises the Australian political landscape through an institutional lens. It examines the legislative and judicial bodies, minor parties, lobby groups, the media and the citizenry, providing ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Climate Change

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."—Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States of AmericaSince it first appeared, this book has achieved a classic status. Reprinted many times since its publication, it remains the only work that looks in detail at the political issues posed by global warming. This new ... Read more

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  • political science is for everybody

    an introduction to political science

    Edited by amy l. atchison ...
    political science is for everybody is the first intersectionality-mainstreamed textbook written for introductory political science courses. While political science and politics are for everybody, political institutions are neither neutral nor unbiased. When we write political science textbooks that obscure the differences in how groups experience and interact with political institutions, we do ... Read more

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  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    by Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Read more

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  • Should We Change How We Vote?

    Evaluating Canada's Electoral System

    Edited by Andrew Potter, Peter Loewen, Daniel Weinstock ...
    During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the “first past the post” electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast. In early 2017, the Liberals reneged on their campaign promise, declaring that there was a lack of public consensus about how to reform the ... Read more

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  • Environmental Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Elizabeth Fisher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving a range of different legal and regulatory techniques. In theory, environmental protection is a no brainer. Few people would actively argue for pollution or environmental destruction. Ensuring a clean environment is ethically desirable, and also sensible ... Read more

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  • Power Shift

    From Party Elites to Informed Citizens

    by Vaughan Lyon ...
    The Message of POWER SHIFT:Fed up with politics-as-usual? Most Canadians are. They (83%) want their MP to represent them and not a party in the House of Commons. Political parties, however, do not consider reforms that would shift significant power from them to citizens. Professor Lyon, breaking the party silence, speaks strongly in support of the interests of his fellow citizens.Drawing on years ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations

    Processes of Creative Self-Destruction

    by Christopher Wright, Daniel Nyberg ...
    Climate change is one of the greatest threats facing humanity, a definitive manifestation of the well-worn links between progress and devastation. This book explores the complex relationship that the corporate world has with climate change and examines the central role of corporations in shaping political and social responses to the climate crisis. The principal message of the book is that despite ... Read more

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